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Prizes for the 2020 Review

Raemon20 Feb 2022 21:07 UTC

94 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] Generalization of the Solomonoff Induction to Accuracy—Is it possible? Would it be useful?

PeterL20 Feb 2022 19:29 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Practitioner: Novice

The Guild of the Rose20 Feb 2022 19:01 UTC

25 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(guildoftherose.org)

[Question] 2 (naive?) ideas for alignment

Jonathan Moregård20 Feb 2022 19:01 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Review: G.E.M. Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy”

David Gross20 Feb 2022 18:58 UTC

24 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Russian x-risks newsletter winter 21-22, war risks update.

avturchin20 Feb 2022 18:58 UTC

29 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

Anticorrelated Noise Injection for Improved Generalization

tailcalled20 Feb 2022 10:15 UTC

2 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Breaking the SIA with an exponentially-Sleeping Beauty

0naut20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC

8 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Books Worthy of Integration

Roven Skyfal20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC

14 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

How Many (Smallish) Organic Compounds Are There?

chemslug20 Feb 2022 4:43 UTC

22 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Microcovid Becoming Less Useful

jefftk20 Feb 2022 3:50 UTC

59 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How to estimate confidence intervals for fermi estimate?

Sønderjye20 Feb 2022 1:26 UTC

3 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature’s laws

Ben Pace19 Feb 2022 23:39 UTC

265 points

40 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

What The Foucault

adamShimi19 Feb 2022 22:48 UTC

39 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is veganism morally correct?

FinalFormal219 Feb 2022 21:20 UTC

−4 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Observation

LoganStrohl19 Feb 2022 18:47 UTC

83 points

23 comments3 min readLW link

Alignment researchers, how useful is extra compute for you?

Lauro Langosco19 Feb 2022 15:35 UTC

8 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Mechanism design / queueing theory for government to sell visas

RyanCarey19 Feb 2022 12:33 UTC

5 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Dangerous Learned Optimization

peterbarnett19 Feb 2022 10:46 UTC

4 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

SPARC Applications Are Now Live!

CitizenTen19 Feb 2022 2:15 UTC

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Dallas February LessWrong/ACX Meetup

ethanmorse19 Feb 2022 1:28 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

HCH and Adversarial Questions

David Udell19 Feb 2022 0:52 UTC

15 points

7 comments26 min readLW link

Encouragement to Instill Confidence?

Zvi18 Feb 2022 22:30 UTC

16 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Misc thematic links

HoldenKarnofsky18 Feb 2022 22:00 UTC

12 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Abundance and scarcity; working forwards and working backwards

Quinn18 Feb 2022 19:05 UTC

28 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Non-Fungible Costs

hawkebia18 Feb 2022 17:15 UTC

13 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

Why you are psychologically screwed up

R Bruns18 Feb 2022 17:07 UTC

44 points

13 comments9 min readLW link

Simulation arguments

Joe Carlsmith18 Feb 2022 10:45 UTC

44 points

16 comments65 min readLW link

Monks of Magnitude

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)18 Feb 2022 7:48 UTC

113 points

50 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] [untitled post]

dawangy18 Feb 2022 7:06 UTC

1 point

4 comments1 min readLW link

Implications of automated ontology identification

Alex Flint, adamShimi and Robert Miles

18 Feb 2022 3:30 UTC

69 points

27 comments23 min readLW link

A scheme for sampling durable goods first-hand before making a purchase

riceissa17 Feb 2022 23:36 UTC

29 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is the competition/cooperation between symbolic AI and statistical AI (ML) about historical approach to research / engineering, or is it more fundamentally about what intelligent agents “are”?

Edward Hammond17 Feb 2022 23:11 UTC

1 point

1 comment2 min readLW link

The Kindness Project

soth0217 Feb 2022 20:24 UTC

4 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Interlude: On Realness

LoganStrohl17 Feb 2022 19:02 UTC

62 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 2/17/22: Coasting Downwards

Zvi17 Feb 2022 15:20 UTC

32 points

10 comments28 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Twitter thread on postrationalists

Eli Tyre17 Feb 2022 9:02 UTC

142 points

32 comments5 min readLW link

REPL’s and ELK

scottviteri17 Feb 2022 1:14 UTC

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

An analogy as the midwife of thermodynamics

adamShimi16 Feb 2022 21:34 UTC

30 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

[Link] Eric Schmidt’s new AI2050 Fund

Aryeh Englander16 Feb 2022 21:21 UTC

32 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Convoy Continued

Zvi16 Feb 2022 14:40 UTC

28 points

15 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Compute Trends Across Three eras of Machine Learning

Jsevillamol, Pablo Villalobos, lennart, Marius Hobbhahn, Tamay Besiroglu and anson.ho

16 Feb 2022 14:18 UTC

94 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 4. The “short-term predictor”

Steven Byrnes16 Feb 2022 13:12 UTC

64 points

11 comments13 min readLW link

Why Doesn’t Healthcare Improve Health?

George3d616 Feb 2022 11:28 UTC

63 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

(www.epistem.ink)

[Question] How do you think about mildly technical people trying to advance science and technology?

Cui16 Feb 2022 3:43 UTC

7 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Acoustic vs Electric Mandolin

jefftk16 Feb 2022 2:20 UTC

9 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Manifesto: The Land is our Birthright (inspired by the Lars Doucet Georgism book review)

talelore15 Feb 2022 23:50 UTC

−21 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

REPL’s: a type signature for agents

scottviteri15 Feb 2022 22:57 UTC

25 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

The Three Little Piggies of Rationality

Sam Enright15 Feb 2022 20:36 UTC

13 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Bazant: An alternate covid calculator

Elizabeth15 Feb 2022 19:50 UTC

24 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)